Evaluator Asset Health

• Based at our state-of-the-art Operations Centre near Perth Airport on a 3 days on, 3 nights on, 6 days off family-friendly roster
• Remote monitoring of rail rollingstock and Wayside assets, diagnosing faults and communicating fault recovery steps to field personnel.
• Be part of a dynamic team with excellent career development opportunities
• Play a key role in supporting the world’s first fully autonomous heavy-haul railway

About the role

We are looking for a Rail Asset Health Evaluator to join our 24/7 Asset Health team based at our Operations Centre.

This role supports our autonomous rail network through the remote monitoring and diagnosis of rollingstock and wayside faults while providing fault recovery guidance to field personnel to ensure the safe and continuous operation of the rail network.

Asset Health Evaluators are trained and developed across both Rollingstock and Wayside Asset Health functions, providing flexibility to support a broad range of rail network assets and operational priorities.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated individual looking to build their technical capability, broaden their rail expertise and play an important role in supporting one of the world’s most advanced autonomous rail networks.

Reporting to the Integrated Control Rail Logistics Supervisor, you will:

• Monitor rollingstock and wayside assets for health trends, alarms and emerging faults
• Diagnose faults and support safe and timely recovery of rollingstock and wayside asset failures
• Liaise with Train Control, Maintenance and field teams to coordinate fault response activities
• Provide remote fault diagnostics and relay information to support field rectification and technical investigations
• Capture high-quality operational data and raise SAP notifications for all reported faults and failures
• Follow Asset Health procedures and manuals when diagnosing faults and providing recovery support
• Develop and maintain competency across both Rollingstock and Wayside Asset Health functions

What you’ll bring

• An analytical mind with strong problem-solving skills, sound communication and computer skills
• Mainline Train Driver or Yard Driver experience within a heavy haul railway, and/or diagnostic, heavy diesel mechanical, electrical, signalling, track, or rail infrastructure experience.
• A strong safety focused mindset
• Ability to multitask and prioritise workload
• Comfortable learning new software applications
• Attention to detail

It would also be beneficial to have

• Prior SAP experience
• Experience using systems such as HOSDI
• Experience or knowledge of rollingstock systems, rail wayside infrastructure, signalling, or rail maintenance activities.

At Rio Tinto, our values of Care, Courage and Curiosity are at the core of everything we do. In this role you'll be an active part of our Port & Rail Control Culture Plan - helping build safe-to-speak behaviours, strong team habits and a genuine "one supply chain" mindset.

We know great candidates come from a diverse range of backgrounds. If you don't meet every criteria but feel you have what it takes, we'd love to hear from you.

What we offer  

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress. 
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority 
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto 
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus 
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family 
• Attractive share ownership plan 
• Company provided insurance cover 
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options 
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions 
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support 
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave) 
• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them 
• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more.

Where you’ll be working

This role is based at our Perth Operations Centre and works a 6 days on, 6 days off, days-only family-friendly roster, with ad hoc travel to operational sites as required.

Our integrated iron ore network is supported by our Operations Centre (OC) in Perth, a state-of-the-art facility that enables all the autonomous trucks, trains and drills at our mines, ports and rail systems to be operated from a single location. The Centre incorporates visualisation and collaboration tools to provide real-time information across our demand chain and allows us to optimise our mining, maintenance and logistic activities across the Pilbara in a way never before possible. Located near the Perth domestic airport, the OC operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to coordinate our integrated network of mines, rail, and ports from 1,500km away.

Applications close on 20th November 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

About Rio TintoRio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and InclusionAt Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.